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by derkster 6mo ago
2024. source: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-military-tested-device-that-...
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by derkster 10mo ago
personally, i always check ebay. but i know general sentiment around "used/like new" items is fairly poor. just ask grand pap sitting in florida, buying half the computer new, because "he would never buy used", aka
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by derkster 10mo ago
I see what you're saying, I didn't make the assumption it was the US authorities, simply that an authoritative entity was involved. In this case, that entity applied enough pressure to directors to make the organizers feel the nee
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by derkster 10mo ago
The FBI and Canada seem to feel differently enough to investigate, and have arrested a few individuals operating these types of "overseas police stations". [1] "Chen Jinping, 60, of New York, New York, pleaded guilty today to
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by derkster 11mo ago
i checked. he seemingly limits his "i have a controversial opinion, let me explain why everyone who disagrees is disgusting" posts to once a month. i'm not sure they're increasing racist, but he's clearly becoming m
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by derkster 1y ago
Absolutely. It will be a while before AI is the absolute replacement, AI will enable the people in these professions to do faster, better (hopefully) work.
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by derkster 2y ago
I do agree with you about what the argument actually is, I should have worded it differently. Any time someone brings up Firefox, it always seems to be an ex-Firefox user talking about compatibility issues. Even your GCP, I've personal
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by derkster 2y ago
Any feature specifically? I added a project+repo, and it scanned and reported successfully - but this is only the free tier.
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by derkster 2y ago
I've been bringing this up in every single thread about Chrome and Manifest V3 pops up. I'm been using Firefox, 100% of the time, on three different operating systems, for probably six years at this point. I can remember a single
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by derkster 2y ago
Manifest V3 has 100% market share for all "full featured" browsers. My understanding is that just yesterday, YouTube made a change that allows them to apply DRM to videos, with even the client side buffer maintaining encryption un
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by derkster 2y ago
You talk about Google as if it's a person. You should take a step back and think to yourself why the changes were made to Manifest V3 that broke backwards compatibility, weakening ability to ad-blocking. Rule set based modification is
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by derkster 2y ago
YouTube has been playing a cat and mouse game, disabling some accounts until disabled, randomly re-enabling them. I personally think it's so when people talk about issues like this - people say "Well, it's been ok on my end&q
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by derkster 2y ago
I'm with you. Every time one of these arguments come up, people talk about how Chrome is superior. I've used Firefox daily for minimum five years as a daily driver, and it's been atleast 3 years since I've had to install
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by derkster 2y ago
I'm old enough to remember an internet before non-porn ads. Being Hacker News, does someone have any hard idea on infrastructure costs in the late 1990s compared to now? In 1997, when America Online went from an hourly rate to unlimite
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by derkster 2y ago
There's still Office LTSC version, which will likely exist for the foreseeable future. I believe they require internet for activation, and are offline afterwards. https://marketplace.appdirect.com/en-US/apps/3
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by derkster 2y ago
Putting Ozempic over the counter at a local pharmacy would be more than enough to keep people from wasting away, the same thing they do with asthma medication. In 2025, if you really want something, a dark web tutorial is 30 seconds away. A
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by derkster 2y ago
To you, it might be admirable. To others, it's just a constant reminder of existential threats. Kudos to you if you can handle it, but it's not anyones place to say just how much is too much to cut them off.
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by derkster 2y ago
I just wanted to bring up the stress caused by "passive" bosses, who attempt to be everyones buddy, avoiding even the faintest whiff of having to actually "manage" employees. Especially employees unable to integrate them
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by derkster 2y ago
For mass production/scalability, I absolutely agree with you. For products that won't be scaled, I imagine it becomes just another abstraction layer, with the cost of human input outweighing the cost of the additional infrastructu
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by derkster 2y ago
Intel spend was spending upwards of 15% a quarter on stock buybacks, while also being stalled out on 10nm with the yield improvements "right around the corner", every quarter, for at least 18 months. I don't blame capitalism,
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by derkster 2y ago
who are we to hold others accountable for their actions when money is at stake?
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by derkster 2y ago
Hard agree, I like to keep up with the newest models by throwing new haircuts on friends, making bad AI memes, just random stuff - and there's tons of models strictly for generating NSFW content. I saw a LoRA last night that was straig
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When Patents Attack 3D Printing: The HangPrinter Is in Peril(makezine.com)
3 points by derkster 4y ago|0 comments
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by derkster 5y ago
I don't think anyone vaccinated is going to be bothered that they didn't have to risk death by COVID (UK mortality rate of 1.99%) to get superior immunity, even if you factor in J&J/AstraZeneca's clotting risk (UK mo
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by derkster 5y ago
I would like to think that getting vaccinated helped reduce viral load enough to help limit potential mutations to some degree, but who knows. I do know I need to be able to live with myself, and if I accidentally hurt someone I loved due t
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by derkster 5y ago
Talking about these issues at the individual level when it should talked about in broader terms distorts the reality of the situation. If you try to convince "no-risk" individuals that they should get the vaccine for their own hea
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by derkster 5y ago
COVID-19 just recently surpassed the number of war casualties from World War I forward. 625K war casualties[1] < 635K COVID-19 casualties[2] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_casualt... [2]:
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by derkster 5y ago
I'm not sure why a lot of disagreements surrounding this issue devolve in to pointing the finger at some issue that has nothing to do with COVID. I assume it's an attempt to diminish the severity of COVID, by comparing a transmitt
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by derkster 5y ago
I don't understand the concept of fairness when we're talking about something that has killed more Americans than every war since the Civil War combined. I would consider every death caused by the asymptomatic much more unfair tha
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by derkster 5y ago
I do the same. It's extremely sad to know the United States has lost more people to this than every war casualty since the Civil War.

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